Evidence: | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, and towards poets who would remain favourites all his life: Hardy, Christina Rossetti and A.E. Housman. In late 1939, when Larkin discovered T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood, Sydney also encouraged him - continuing, as he had always done, to make reading seem an independent activity, only tenuously linked to schoolwork.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 31 Dec 1939 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Coventry | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Philip Larkin |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 9 Aug 1922 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | later poet and librarian |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Christopher Isherwood |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20241 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Andrew Motion | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Philip Larkin. A Writer's Life | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 28 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin. A Writer's Life (London, 1993), p. 28, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20241, accessed: 08 May 2024 |
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